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Gathering Honey, Tomb of Rekhmire

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Description

Tempera on Paper

AI image analysis GPT-4o-2024-08-06

Machine-generated from the object's image on May 2026. Not curatorial; treat deities, names, and signs below as the model's best reading, not authority.

Two figures involved in a ritual offering are depicted.

The image shows two figures making offerings, depicted in a typical ancient Egyptian art style with profile view and stylized postures. The scene includes stacked loaves or jars and involves colorful pigments, including reds and ochres, indicative of offerings to a deity or in a funerary context. The condition of the fresco is fragmentary, with considerable flaking and wear visible.

funerary New Kingdom fragmentary
Materials paintplaster

Connections

Found at Sheikh Abd el-Qurna
Materials PaintPlaster

Cross-references (4)

  • Wikidata-Q Q96185103 tier-1
  • Collection-QID Q160236 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • Inventory-Number 30.4.88 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
  • MET-Object 544626 tier-2 (wikidata-mediated)
About this record's data
  • From the source institution — accession, description, dimensions, and dating are as catalogued by Metropolitan Museum of Art — Egyptian Art (Open Access).
  • AI-inferred — the image-analysis panel (deities, names, signs) is machine-generated and may be wrong.
  • Approximate location — most map points are plotted at the site centroid, not the exact findspot.
  • Inferred links — cross-references marked with a match method other than explicit-source-field were matched by us, not stated by the source.